In AWK, skip the rest of the current action? - awk

Question

Thanks for looking.
I have an AWK script with something like this;
/^test/{
if ($2 == "2") {
# What goes here?
}
# Do some more stuff with lines that match test, but $2 != "2".
}
NR>1 {
print $0
}
I'd like to skip the rest of the action, but process the rest of the patterns/actions on the same line.
I've tried return but this isn't a function.
I've tried next but that skips the rest of the patterns/actions for the current line.
For now I've wrapped the rest of the ^test action in the if statement's else, but I was wondering if there was a better approach.
Not sure this matters but I am using gawk on OSX, installed via brew (for better compatibility with my target OS).
Update (w/solution):
Edits: Expanded code sample based on #karakfa's answer.
BEGIN{
keepLastLine = 1;
}
/^test/ && !keepLastLine{
printLine = 1;
print $0;
next;
}
/^test/ && keepLastLine{
printLine = 0;
next;
}
/^foo/{
# This is where I have the rest of my logic (approx 100 lines),
# including updates to printLine and keepLastLine
}
NR>1 {
if (printLine) {
print $0
}
}
This will work for me, I even like it better that what I was thinking of.
However I do wonder what if my keepLastLine condition was only accessible in a for loop?
I gather from what #karakfa has said, there isn't a control structure for exiting only an action, and continuing with other patterns, so that would have to be implemented with a flag of some sort (not unlike #RavinderSingh13's answer).

Answer 1

If I got it correct could you please try following. I am creating a variable named flag here which will be chedked if condition inside test block for checking if 2nd field is 2 is TRUE then it will be SET. When it is SET so rest of statements in test BLOCK will NOT be executed. Also resetting flag's value before read starts for a line too.
awk '
{
found=""
}
/^test/{
if ($2 == "2") {
# What goes here?
found=1
}
if(!found){
# Do some more stuff with lines that match test, but $2 != "2".
}
}
NR>1 {
print $0
}' Input_file
Testing of code here:
Let's say following is the Input_file:
cat Input_file
file
test 2 file
test
abcd
After running code following we will get following output, where if any line is having test keyword and NOT having $2==2 then also it will execute statements outside of test condition.
awk '
{
found=""
}
/^test/{
if ($2 == "2") {
print "# What goes here?"
found=1
}
if(!found){
print "Do some more stuff with lines that match test, but $2 != 2"
}
}
NR>1 {
print $0
}' Input_file
# What goes here?
test 2 file
Do some more stuff with lines that match test, but $2 != 2
test
abcd

Answer 2

the magic keyword you're looking for is else
/^test/{ if($2==2) { } # do something
else { } # do something else
}
NR>1 # {print $0} is implied.
for some reason if you don't want to use else just move up condition one up (flatten the hierarchy)
/^test/ && $2==2 { } # do something
/^test/ && $2!=2 { } # do something else
# other action{statement}s